ELLE navigates November's cultural landscape for you

Things are cooling way down this month, but we challenge you to put on your puffy coat and enjoy some culture. Luckily, some of the best events in November are happening on your own couch—Conan's return, a brilliant reissue of a classic film, and a new autobiography from the country's rap laureate—but there's also a ton to do. Get to Broadway and see Patti Lupone belt, get to an indie theater and watch rising filmmaker Lena Dunham's debut, or just get to a bookstore for the best biography of Cleopatra we've read to date. Either way, we are excited for you to get up and go! You know you want to.

The Month in Culture

The Month in Culture

BOOK: Cleopatra, a Life, by Stacy Schiff

When most people think of Cleopatra, they see Elizabeth Taylor at her most glamorous, but there was far more to the sexy and scandalous Egyptian than her film portrayal. Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Schiff's new biography, on shelves November 1, sheds new light on the historical heroine's dazzling life, from her affairs with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony to her wild riches to her perilous end. No fiction could ever match Cleopatra's real life—as Schiff's book proves, the truth can be a real page-turner.